Graduate Studies

The Women's Studies Program offers graduate courses which may be taken as electives by students enrolled in graduate degree programs in other departments or used as a disciplinary focus for the Interdisciplinary Masters program.

The Interdisciplinary Masters Degree program is designed to provide highly motivated students the opportunity to develop, with an advising committee, an individualized, interdisciplinary program for graduate study, in which fully approved courses in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and the professional schools are combined to create a cohesive program not otherwise available on campus. Such a program will involve a minimum of two and a maximum of three academic. (For more information, go to: http://www.gsr.pdx.edu/forms/interdisciplinary_studies.pdf )

Students in the Interdisciplinary Degree program may select Women's Studies as one of their academic disciplines. The following graduate courses are fully approved for students wishing to include women's studies in their interdisciplinary course of study:

*WS 501 Research
WS 503 Thesis
*WS 505 Reading and Conference
WS 507 Seminar
**WS 509 Practicum
 
WS 517 Women in the Economy
WS 524 Women and the Law
WS 525 Sociology of Women
WS 526 Women and Mental Illness
WS 529, 530, 531 Women in the Visual Arts
WS 543, 544 British Women Writers
WS 545, 546 American Women Writers
WS 552 Gender and Race in the Media
WS 555 Gender and Education
WS 557 Language of Violence
WS 567 Women and Family
WS 570 Asian American Women's Studies
WS 571 Global Feminisms
WS 579 Women and Organizational Psychology
ArH 532 Issues in Gender and Art
Anth 532 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Eng 593 Advanced Topics in Feminist Literary Theory
Hst 513 Topics in Women, Gender and Transnationalism
Phe 551 Women and Holistic Health
Phe 552 Women's Health
Phe 553 Women's Reproductive Health

* a maximum of 12 credits total of 501 and 505 combined from all disciplines may be applied toward the Interdisciplinary degree
** a maximum of 6 credits total of 509 from all disciplines may be applied

(Link Interdisciplinary MA/MS: http://www.gsr.pdx.edu/forms/interdisciplinary_studies.pdf